c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'" — Brendan Coyle
"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie." — Nora Ephron
"American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule." — Michael Mandelbaum
"People who shop in health food stores never look healthy." — Amy Sedaris
"Let's create a legal system that can work." — Sam Brownback
"We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour." — Philip Knight
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." — Wayne Dyer
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got." — Kurt Cobain
"I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier." — Harrison Salisbury
"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order." — David Gerrold
"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying." — Sue Grafton
"Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral." — Vernon A. Walters
"Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are." — Channing Tatum
"How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?" — Mary Astell
"Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now." — Ryan Seacrest
"My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'" — Dhani Harrison
"That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life." — Herschel Walker
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes." — Louisa May Alcott
"So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes." — Steve Irwin
"Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical." — Paul McCartney
"While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship." — Jerry Saltz
"Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion." — Heinrich Heine
"Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world." — Sam Elliott
"Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women." — Marilyn Monroe
"Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think." — Christopher Heyerdahl
"I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor." — Lauren Graham
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." — Marcel Proust
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy." — Robert A. Heinlein
"It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on." — Barbara Bush
"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." — Jimmy Cannon
"Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications." — Mark Hyman
"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts." — Mike Krzyzewski
"Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive." — Jesse Jackson
"I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck." — Danica McKellar
"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best." — Ben Nicholson
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen." — Thomas Carlyle
"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad." — Eric Holder
"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is." — Lesley Garrett
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." — Thomas Merton
"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about." — Tony Kushner
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots." — Karl Kraus
"One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend." — Susan Orlean
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending." — Karl Marx
"The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud." — Bob Uecker
"We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible." — Tom Conway
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible." — Ray Bradbury
"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now." — Imelda Staunton
"Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients." — Peter Singer
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one." — Brian Clough
"Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering." — Nikki Reed
"Growing up I didn't watch movies." — Denzel Washington
"Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp." — Nancy Reagan
"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week." — Temple Grandin
"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you." — Kin Hubbard
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." — Ambrose Bierce
"My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty." — Ian Hislop
"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art." — Robert Delaunay
"I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid." — Seth Green
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." — Albert Einstein
"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other." — Harriet Tubman
"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs." — Dick Dale
"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake." — Basil Hume
"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty." — Marcus V. Pollio
"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum." — Desmond Tutu
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars." — Elbert Hubbard
"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer." — Thomas J. Watson
"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!" — Victor Hugo
"If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues." — Cory Lidle
"The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it." — Dean Smith
"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were." — Elvis Presley
"Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want." — Connie Stevens
"I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere." — Dr. Dre
"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics." — Joan Cusack
"The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee." — Tara Lipinski
"Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens." — Sammy Davis, Jr.
"When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on." — John Malkovich
"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me." — Brenda Lee
"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma." — Jack Kevorkian
"I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do." — Lea Michele
"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie." — Denise Richards
"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives." — Richard M. Daley
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating." — Karl Von Clausewitz
"Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking." — James L. Farmer, Jr.
"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too." — Ulrich Beck
"Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us." — Robinson Jeffers
"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best." — Rahm Emanuel
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." — H. L. Mencken
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." — John Kenneth Galbraith
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness." — Sacha Guitry
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." — Albert Schweitzer
"Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?" — King Abdullah II
"Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well." — Jack Dee
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health." — Clarence Day
"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty." — Jeremy Collier
"It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul." — Caroline Kennedy
"The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends." — Joel Osteen
"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." — Helen Gurley Brown
"My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple." — Rita Ora
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers." — Khalil Gibran
"I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything." — Julia Child
"The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation." — Jonathan Sacks
"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend." — Byron White
"Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts." — Rebecca West
"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason." — Norman Cousins
"In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants." — Daniel H. Wilson
"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." — Hugh Sidey
"If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything." — Jerry Saltz
"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." — Thomas Merton
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true." — Audrey Hepburn
"We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that." — Neil Patrick Harris
"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites." — Suze Orman
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience." — Samuel Alexander
"I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup." — Melanie Fiona
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity." — Alfred de Vigny
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." — Plato
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit." — Tertullian
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" — Abraham Lincoln
"Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else." — Chevy Chase
"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness." — Laurence Sterne
"The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed." — Robert Collier
"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long." — Robert Staughton Lynd
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." — Oscar Wilde
"According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time." — Grazia Deledda
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest." — Andy Warhol
"I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way." — Steve Martin
"There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress." — Tom Berenger
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." — George Eliot
"I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring." — Catherine Deneuve
"I'm very inspired by past music." — Adam Lambert
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words." — Shepard Smith
"Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?" — Jessica Ennis
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." — Helen Keller
"To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?" — Karl Pilkington
"I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom." — Alan Dershowitz
"When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget." — Helen Hunt Jackson
"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple." — Paulo Coelho
"We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government." — Lucy Powell
"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years." — Darrell Royal
"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without." — Martin Luther
"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget." — Chaim Herzog
"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers." — Daryl Hannah
"You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night." — Slash
"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports." — Bernice Weissbourd
"I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf." — Kate Moss
"Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers." — Cat Cora
"I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret." — Jim Coleman
"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game." — Michael Jordan
"My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'" — Robin Roberts
"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government." — Elizabeth I
"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing." — Johnny Carson
"I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension." — Bela Lugosi
"I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me." — Alan Ladd
"You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that." — Nick Rhodes
"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience." — Cameron Diaz
"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something." — Frederick Smith
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age." — Anne Tyler
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish." — H. L. Mencken
"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure." — Bryant H. McGill
"It's an ongoing joy being a dad." — Liam Neeson
"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men." — Herbert Hoover
"I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain." — Arthur Rimbaud
"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'" — Nicole Kidman
"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process." — Stephen King
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." — Socrates
"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records." — Alvin Lee
"I don't care about money." — Lady Gaga
"I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions." — Bjorn Ulvaeus
"A female piano player is always pretty cool to me." — Chrisette Michele
"I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them." — Cecily von Ziegesar
"My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate." — Victor Cruz
"My message is that God is a good God." — Joel Osteen
"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers." — Thomas Dolby
"And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned." — Lynn Redgrave
"It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously." — Laura Linney
"Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think." — Hugh Laurie
"Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence." — Matt Walsh
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." — Nicholas M. Butler
"There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past." — Umberto Eco
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." — Richard Stallman
"When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility." — Colin Powell
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." — Samuel Johnson
"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart." — Sarah Ban Breathnach
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it." — Samuel Johnson
"The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it." — Dennis Prager
"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living." — Gilbert Parker
"I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that." — Tracey Ullman
"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion." — Harvey Milk
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." — Harold Wilson
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." — William Gibson
"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man." — Ho Chi Minh
"Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman." — Angelina Jolie
"Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer." — Jim Bakker
"I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?" — Jane Campion
"I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!" — Debbie Gibson
"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek." — Jones Very
"And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm." — Jamie Foxx
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost." — Billy Graham
"The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here." — Mike Weir
"It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it." — Matt LeBlanc
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." — Joseph Stalin
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals." — Benjamin Franklin
"It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going." — James Levine
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War." — George Washington
"It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried." — Adele
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." — Elbert Hubbard
"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me." — David Guterson
"For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity." — Oscar Niemeyer
"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important." — Mariel Hemingway
"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful." — George Wald
"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets." — Bernie Taupin
"Remember that credit is money." — Benjamin Franklin
"The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset." — John Scarlett
"I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I." — Doris Lessing
"If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds." — Nelson A. Miles
"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning." — Carl Rogers
"Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent." — Henry David Thoreau
"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic." — Theodor Adorno
"For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." — Jewel
"My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence." — Dido Armstrong
"My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers." — Gary Bauer
"Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest." — Helen Rowland
"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." — Plato
"Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence." — James Hal Cone
"Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo." — Zach Wamp
"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you." — Christie Hefner
"We aren't cool and never will be." — Chris Martin
"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left." — Christopher Lasch
"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet." — Horace
"When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there." — Laurieann Gibson
"Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them." — Sai Baba
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." — Carl Sandburg
"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed." — Maya Angelou
"For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different." — Lucy Powell
"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost." — Michel Foucault
"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." — Brendan Behan
"I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money." — Michael Caine
"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money." — Henny Youngman
"The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'." — Dan Wheldon
"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership." — Octavia Butler
"I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." — Harvey Weinstein
"Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day." — Janice Dickinson
"Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life." — Mitt Romney
"I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ." — Evander Holyfield
"We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science." — James D. Watson
"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened." — George W. Bush
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." — Paul Valery
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating." — Andrew Cohen
"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know." — Friedrich August von Hayek
"My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there." — Emeril Lagasse
"I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems." — Dominic Monaghan
"I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children." — Steffi Graf
"My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years." — Alison Lohman
"I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside." — Ricky Williams
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." — Mark Twain
"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by." — Maria Schell
"It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself." — Nate Ruess
"I know nothing about technology." — Jack Ma
"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals." — Michael Korda
"To love beauty is to see light." — Victor Hugo
"Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking." — Malcolm Wilson
"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame." — Ville Valo
"For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization." — Terry Eagleton
"Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues." — Tony Snow
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street." — W. H. Auden
"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman." — Allen Tate
"Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom." — Gary Allan
"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer." — Spiro T. Agnew
"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action." — Paul Wellstone
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." — Robert Collier
"My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy." — Bode Miller
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." — Mahatma Gandhi
"In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out." — Tom Hiddleston
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." — Og Mandino
"I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it." — Katherine Jenkins
"Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." — Queen Victoria
"Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ." — Mitt Romney
"I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid." — Piper Laurie
"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?" — Graham Greene
"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap." — Rodney Dangerfield
"Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013." — John Cornyn
"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!" — Freddie Mercury
"You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that." — Michael Fassbender
"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it." — Margaret Thatcher
"We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253." — Peter King
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest." — Alexander Pope
"I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll." — Adrian Mitchell
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise." — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here." — David Kay
"I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different." — Sondre Lerche
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." — Theodore Roethke
"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me." — Jesse Ventura
"Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities." — C. S. Lewis
"If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity." — Jean-Francois Cope
"'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better." — George Edward Woodberry
"All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." — Andre Breton
"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history." — Albert Schweitzer
"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you." — Abu Bakr
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." — David Carradine
"On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home." — Joel Osteen
"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design." — Kenneth R. Miller
"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars." — James Daly